‘I can hardly imagine it, but everything will be different tomorrow. I’ve looked forward to it for years. I’ll truly be Sundaram’s wife, together in body as in spirit . . .’But that tomorrow never comes, and at just fourteen, Aru is left a widow. Worse, the village whispers name Sundaram a drunkard and a thief—the thief who called down the wrath of the local goddess by stealing the most precious jewel from her temple. The future Aru once envisioned vanishes, leaving only bleak and ...

Madras, 1944 While World War II rages in Europe and the Japanese army draws closer to India, Raji and her sisters are sent off with their mother to stay in Manikoil, her mother's family village. But with her brother now a soldier in the British Indian Army and refugees fleeing from Malaya, Burma and other eastern countries back to India, Manikoil is no longer the peaceful haven it once was. And while there is hope of Independence in the air, Raji is uncertain whether it will come to pass-a...

Adithya is bitter when he is forced to accept the delivery of an antique bed on behalf of his neighbor. The large and majestic bed occupies his whole bedroom. Every time he sleeps on it, he has nightmares. He dreams about killing different people with whom he had disputes. And at the end of it all, he wakes up devastated, completely drained. When he soon learns that the people whom he had killed in his dreams have also died in real life—passing away naturally in their sleep—he begins to re...

I decided to embark on my study of the Mahabharata with the intention of taking a fresh look at it. While I had access to other translations in two languages, I was not convinced by the interpretations they offered for some ancient Indian terms and notions. While most of them treat this work as an epic, I decided to take its author at his word and decided to find history in this work. In the process of translating, I found that there is much in this work that is history. This allowed me to...

I decided to embark on my study of the Mahabharata with the intention of taking a fresh look at it. While I had access to other translations in two languages, I was not convinced by the interpretations they offered for some ancient Indian terms and notions. While most of them treat this work as an epic, I decided to take its author at his word and decided to find history in this work. In the process of translating, I found that there is much in this work that is history. This allowed me to...

I decided to embark on my study of the Mahabharata with the intention of taking a fresh look at it. While I had access to other translations in two languages, I was not convinced by the interpretations they offered for some ancient Indian terms and notions. While most of them treat this work as an epic, I decided to take its author at his word and decided to find history in this work. In the process of translating, I found that there is much in this work that is history. This allowed me to...

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